The Infer Trust makes every effort to record and categorise the firearms incidents reported in the UK but we recognise that it is not a complete record.
If you are aware of a gun incident which is not listed please notify us. You can do this by either sending us the link for an on line report, or a hard copy of a press article to our address.
A gunman walked into a store in Portsmouth and made off with £11,000. The forced members of staff into a room at the rear of the shop and, after repeatedly punching one man, forced him to open the safe whilst pointing the gun at him.
2008/3/25
Redditch Advertiser
A teenager was grabbed around the throat and threatened with what appeared to be an airgun as he was leaving a park in Church Hill. He was approached by a male who had been with another group of males and a girl who ordered him to hand over his mobile phone. The phone was recovered nearby.
2008/3/25
Liverpool Echo
Armed police sealed off a road in Kirkdale, Liverpool, after reports that four teenagers who were setting off fire hydrants might have a gun. Four suspects were arrested as they came out of a house and taken away for questioning. Police found a ball bearing gun, a machete and an extendable baton in the house.
2008/3/25
BBC
Two men with a handgun robbed a bookmakers in Kitts Green, Birmingham. They forced the store manager to open the safe and stole an undisclosed amount of money.
2008/3/25
YourCanterbury.com Safer Spring Initiative Weapons Amnesty
Kent Police with Kent and Medway Trading Standards 'Safer Spring' initiative weapons amnesty
2008/3/25
Daily Record
George Bundy from Dunblane has had his replica guns removed by police after a minor disturbance at his home. Officers seized his two 1860s-style Colt pistols and a Winchester rifle for tests. Bundy claimed that the guns cannot be converted to fire live rounds and are always locked away.
2008/3/25
BBC
Michael Absalom has been jailed for eight years and six months after two armed raids on a money exchange office in Glasgow in February 2007 (see Incidents) and on a bank in Troon in August 2007 (see Incidents). After the first incident he disposed of dyed note under a bin along with his gun, which he had pointed at two tellers. In the second raid he menaced three tellers with a Luger-type gun.
2008/3/24
Weston & Somerset Mercury
A four-year-old's toy gun sparked a major armed police operation in Worle, Somerset. The police were alerted by a member of the public who spotted what was thought to be a handgun on the parcel shelf of a car. The police say that this is exactly the type of problem caused by fake guns and that anyone who has a toy gun is putting themselves at serious risk of being shot by police because they are almost impossible to distinguish fro real guns.
2008/3/24
Evening Chronicle (Newcastle)
A cat is lucky to be alive after he was shot with an airgun. The cat was fine when he was let out of the family house in West Denton, Newcastle, but three hours later he was found in agony under a bush in the front garden. A vet discovered that a pellet had gone through his kidney and perforated his intestine and pancreas. Major surgery saved his life.
2008/3/23
BBC
An 18-year-old was shot while he was waiting at a bus stop with a friend in Wandsworth, south London. The victim was shot in the shoulder and remains in hospital in a comfortable condition.
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